Hi.

Been hanging around here for a while now, just reading and thinking. Well, I finally found a tiny bit of motivation to do something. I dug out my old computer and started 'planning'.

Since I had some Zalman parts from way back I thought I'd mod them to fit my needs. Or well... The Radeon already had the ZM80C-HP since before, and the CPU had a CNPS7000A-Cu on top of it. Not much to do really, but I figured; "What the heck, I've seen tons of people straping on a 120mm fan on the CNPS7000, why shouldn't I give it a try?". So of I went, found an old Lian Li casefan that i demolished for the project. Ended up looking like this:


Yeah I know, I'm a shitty photographer.

Then the crazy idea of a fan/hdd-tunnel popped up in my head. At the moment it seemed like a good idea. This is how the prototype looked:



Attentive people will notice that that is a 140mm fan from Aerocool. Its not that bad acctually, but then again I'm used to quite the high ambient sounds in my room. Anyways... At this time I had already modified the case a wee bit to suit my cable management. At the same time I cut out all fanguards and modified the PSU, removed unneeded cables and fanguards. (Antec Truepower 550W, a bit to hefty for this project, don't you think? )

This is what it looked like after the small tweaks to the case:



I must say, the best part of this project was the cable management. It was pure fun! *I'm a loonie!*

Anyways. At this point I realized that the fanbox was to big and unsuitable for my plans. And just plain ugly.



So I scrapped that idea. Hmm, seems like I cheated here with the picture taking. Oh well, the photographers among you are probably happy about that.

Here follows the endresult:


Overview


HDD Suspension


CPU area


Backside


Cable mayhem


Hardware used:
Intel P4 "Northwood" 2.6 GHz
Abit IC7-G
Ati Radeon 9600XT
1.5GB Kingston Hyper-X DDR400
Seagate Barracuda IV 60GB
<insert manufacturer> DVD-ROM
Case:
Coolermaster ATC 710-SX2
Fans:
Intake - Scythe S-FLEX [The one that comes with the Infinity]
CPU - Lian Li casefan, no idea about the real manufacturer
Exhaust - 2x Sharkoon Silent Eagle 1000
PSU - standard fans with removed fanguards and rubber.. uhm.. screws?

Now then, after I started it yesterday I was a weeeee bit dissapointed. The bearings in the modded Lian Li have obviously taken a beating so it sounds like a freaking chainsaw, gonna have to fix that. The intake fan is quite loud at 12V so I will have fix 5 or 7V to that, also the intake airflow sound is quite loud, I'll need to figure out a way to don't have it directly in front of the front. (That sounded weird.) The PSU has a high frequency beep not coming from the fans. The only thing I'm really happy with are the exhaust fans, even though the barely give any airflow but hey, who am I to complain about that?, and the cable management. Feels nice to have more meat on the bones though, now I can take this with me to the Lian Li PC-201 which contains my workstation/desktop/fileserver/gamingrig, some day...

I do however have a plan for the intake in the ATC. Bear with me for a little longer:


Yeah, my drawing suck too, so what?

But I guess you get the picture. I think I've seen a similar system here somewhere. If I'd only find that tiny bit of motivation now again...

Jeez, this became more like a project post than a gallery post. Well, moderators may do as they please.

Til next time!

Very nice, would read again!

Alright.

Changed back to the orginal fan on the Zalman and lowered the front fan to 7V. Most audible part now is the PSU. Now I'm satisfied with this machine!

Next project:

Get a Lian Li PC201 with C2D E6600 @ 3.6GHz, X1950XTX, X1300XT and 9 disks quiter. A lot of planning ahead I think.

Interesting progression of refinement. (Movin on up, to the east side).

It's looking good.

What happened to the inside of your case (the skidmark)? Did you go road surfing with it?

Looking at your cable taping, I feel it is my duty to call the authorities and have you locked up.

doesn't look too bad, but i have to say, of all the cases i've used, i find Cooler Master to be the easiest brand to silence with and get the lowest temps...could just be my hot room and the big mesh front that helps too.